Barry L. Cross, M. Kathryn Brohman

Project Leadership (eBook, ePUB)

Creating Value with an Adaptive Project Organization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Today's organizations need to introduce new products and enhance existing services faster in order to remain competitive. The common cause of project failure is that leadership fails to appreciate the extent of uncertainty and complexity in a project and therefore doesn't adapt their management structure accordingly. This book highlights how successful projects rely not just on the project team, but on the culture of executive leadership. Concepts are presented in an anecdotal manner that will suit today's leaders. The book offers straight-forward takeaways and solutions to provide executives with the tools to implement an effective project environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040082669
• Artikelnr.: 70002467

Autorenporträt

Barry Cross career spans over 25 years of industry, teaching and consulting experience. He joined Queen's University in 2006 after spending 18 years in various Executive and Management positions with Magna International, Autosystems Manufacturing and DuPont. While in Industry, Mr. Cross led many key strategic initiatives, including the development of significant projects in Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and Europe.

Mr. Cross now teaches at Queen's School of Business at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels in Operations Management, Service Management, and Project Management. At the Executive level, he speaks regularly on Lean, Innovation, Execution, Operations and Project Management. His speaking and consulting clients include Deloitte, Samsung, Encana and others.

He has an MBA from Queen's University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo. He has published numerous articles and is quoted widely in radio, television and the written media. He is the bestselling author of Lean Innovation: Understanding What's Next in Today's Economy (Taylor and Francis, 2012).

Kathryn Brohman's career started as a marketing manager with Sun Microsystems of Canada. She went on to pursue her Ph.D. in information systems at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario where she spent four years working with systems development teams both at the university as well as with organizations including Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, and the Bank of Montreal.

Dr. Brohman is now an Associate professor at Queen's School of Business. Her leading edge research focuses on enabling business strategy with technology with a specific focus on project governance and control and IT-enabled resilient organizational design. She has published her work in premier journals including the Decision Sciences, Harvard Business Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, and Communications of the ACM.

Inhaltsangabe

The Project Environment. Why Projects Fail. The Case for Project
Leadership. Project Oversight and Communication. The Paradox of Project
Control. Project Estimating and Acceleration. Risk and Crisis Management.
Strategy, Execution and the Operating Plan. Building a Sustainable Project
Organization.